Eyes (MC / Millbee / Pause OT3)
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mindcrackloveAnyways! Scooter and I wrote this story that's an OT3 story revolving around (as it may be obvious from the title) eye color. It's kinda like a Soulmate AU where when you find your soulmate, you get a ring around your eyes that are the color of your soulmate's (or in this case, soulmates') eyes.
Hope you all enjoy, and happy Valentine's Day
Pause walked briskly down the snowy streets, looking around at all the christmas decorations and bright lights hanging from all the houses around him. The chilly winter air bit at his fingers, but it wasn’t anything he wasn’t used to, as he’d always managed to go the winter without using a heavy coat or boots like the rest of his friends. Whether it be from sheer stubbornness or simply how he had been brought up, his friends would never know, but he only wore a purple t-shirt with the Twitch logo emblazoned on it along with a pair of jeans and sneakers, no gloves, hat, or scarf.
Hearing familiar laughter from across the street, Pause turned his head to see his good friend Guude holding hands with BdoubleO, laughing and walking along together. Did those two get together in the last few weeks? Pause wondered, thinking back to the last few times he and Guude had hung out together, but he couldn’t recall anything out of the ordinary, at least in the sense that he didn’t see BdoubleO hanging around his house all the time or him having to cancel their plans to spend time with him.
As Guude and BdoubleO walked closer, he noticed their eyes. Guude’s normal green eyes had changed to feature a brown outer ring in addition to the normal green coloring. BdoubleO’s eyes also differed, with BdoubleO now having a green outer ring around his normal brown eyes. Pause immediately brightened, knowing what that meant.
“Guude! BdoubleO!” Pause called out with a smile, walking towards the duo. “You didn’t tell me you two were soulmates!” Pause added gleefully. When someone found their true love, their soulmate, their eyes would develop a second ring of color around their first, the color being that of their soulmate’s eyes. “I knew you guys had been dating for a bit, but this is huge!”
“Yeah man, it just happened yesterday!” Guude responded cheerfully, a large smile on his face. He squeezed BdoubleO’s hand, and shot his soulmate an even greater smile as well, staring into the newly changed eyes of his partner.
“Yeah, it was so great! I was out skating on the frozen lake by the town hall, and then Guude walked up in his adorable lil green jacket, and we started skatin’ together.” BdoubleO began excitedly, clearly enthused to tell the story to anyone who would cross his path. “And while we were skatin’, I hit a rough patch of ice and tripped right into his arms, and we looked at each other’s eyes and saw ‘em change!”
“Wow, man. That’s both really amazing and really cliché at the same time. Best wishes, you two! Oh, and Guude, don’t blow off the recording session we have planned for thursday just because you two got together!” Pause teased his blonde friend, receiving a good-natured punch to the arm for his efforts. Waving to them as he began to walk towards his destination once again, he let his mind wander to the strange change that occurred when people found the other person they were meant to be with. It often defied what most considered to be the rules of nature and biology, but it still happened nonetheless, and even more now that people had the ability to talk with anyone and meet anyone from all over the world.
Pause didn't know how it would work for him, and he didn't even have any inkling of who he might be in love with. Certainly not any one of the other Mindcrackers, right? He'd been in their close company for years now, and not even a speck of any color but brown had appeared in his eyes. It could always be someone with brown eyes, he hoped inwardly, despite knowing that he would have received a second ring of the color brown if he'd actually found the right person.
Guess I'll just have to keep waiting, he told himself, trying to keep from feeling a bit of sadness at the fact he'd have to spend yet another holiday season alone while he was surrounded by all his friends with their soulmates.
He continued walking, until he heard a second pair of voices. This time they belonged to the upbeat, melon-worshipping duo of Millbee and MC, or commonly known as Orange Wool. The duo were both wearing many layers of clothing to protect from the cold weather. MC was wearing his dark blue sweater and winter gloves, while Millbee was wearing a rainbow-colored wool sweater with matching winter gloves. The only distinction between the two pairs of gloves, were that Millbee’s had small sheep neatly sewn onto the back of them, and MC’s had messily stitched triforces, with his left glove have a 6th finger slow sewn in. Despite how close they were, both men’s eye colors remained with only a single layer. MC’s eyes a dark blue, and Millbee’s a gray.
Pause approached the duo, pushing his sad thoughts to the side for now.
“Hey, happy holidays you two!” He said with a smile. “Nice outfits, but uh MC, I think you may have 1 too many fingers” he said with a light-hearted chuckle.
“Oh, well, Millbee and I wanted to make each other gloves for the cold season, and he got a little carried away, so now I have 11 fingers” he said with a smile.
“What can I say, I may be a man of many, many, many talents, however knitting is not one of them” Millbee added in a joking tone, “though Pause, where’s your winter apparel? You’re walking around with practically nothing on, how are you not freezing!”
Pause looked down at his outfit and shrugged. "I just like wearing my regular stuff. The cold doesn't bother me anyway, so it works out. Frankly, I'm surprised all of you guys bundled up so much aren't overheating. I'd be sweating way too much to be comfortable in that bulky thing," Pause said, gesturing to Millbee's and MC's jackets.
"Whoa man, don't disrespect this majestic piece of art," Millbee said, wrapping his arms protectively around the rainbow fleece adorning his body. "Gotta keep this beautiful body strong, warm, and healthy, am I right?" MC just giggled at Millbee's antics, having to take a moment afterwards to wipe off his glasses, which had gotten fogged up in the few moments of laughter.
"This is my only problem with winter," MC said, a slight frown on his face as he looked at his glasses to make sure they were properly cleaned before setting them back on the bridge of his nose. "Of course, the cold isn't wonderful either, but fluffy coats make it worth it. I guess the lot of us just can't compare to your hotness, Pause," MC said with a wink and a smile, and Pause, despite getting this sort of commentary a lot (although, not usually directed at him), hoped he wasn't blushing brighter than the cold was making his cheeks appear anyway.
“Ooh, MC, how forward of you” Pause said in return, causing the trio to laugh a bit. “Oh hey, did you 2 hear that Guude and BdoubleO are each other's soulmates?” Pause said, continuing the conversation.
“What, really? I flipping called it!” MC said with a large smile. “I called that crap like 2 years ago!” He said gleefully, looking rather proud of himself.
“Good for them, it’s pretty cool to see the 2 of them hook up” Millbee added. “Though it’s kinda weird to think about, like, they’ve known each other for how many years now? And they’re just now gettin’ together? Kinda makes y’think”
“Hm, nah, all that makes me think is that you want a reason to hook up with all this” Pause said, doing large exaggerated motions with his arms at his body.
“Oh you know it” Millbee jokingly said in return, winking at Pause. The trio of men chuckled once more, this form of joking-flirtatiousness being a common thing between them.
“Alright, well it was nice talking to you 2, but I really gotta get going, can’t be late” Pause said.
“Mkay, MC and I are just gonna go to my place and end the day with some video games. Where are you going anyways?” Millbee asked.
“Oh, Etho and Beef were put in charge of organizing the Mindcrack Winter party this year, and they wanted me to help. You two are coming, right?”
“Definitely!” MC said with a smile. “Should be a lot of fun”
“Yeah, and nothing says Mindcrack Party like Millbee!” Millbee added.
“Awesome, I’ll be looking forward to seeing you there! Have fun with your video games!” Pause said, waving orange wool goodbye as they parted ways. He headed to town hall, where Etho and Beef were no doubt waiting for him to show up. While he was walking there, he couldn’t help but think about if he would ever find his soulmate.
~
“Ah, Millbee! You… you… darn person!” MC said, trying to be angry at the blue shell Millbee had thrown in Mario Kart, but he couldn’t think of anything immediately, and it made his indignant remark much less scathing than it could’ve been. Of course, it wasn’t as though MC was truly annoyed, those things just came with the game, especially if Millbee wanted to win the race.
“Aw, yeah!” Millbee exclaimed as he passed up MC on the final stretch of the raceway due to the significant slowdown the blue shell had caused, and he passed the checkered finish line with a small victory dance in his chair, grinning over at MC, who came in as a close second place. “Wanna go another round, MC? I’ll still beat you, but you could always try,” Millbee told his blue-haired friend, who was about to reply when a ravenous growl came from the depths of his stomach, evoking a sheepish grin from MC and a chuckle from Millbee.
“I may want to go get some food…” MC admitted, but quickly added, “but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to come back and beat you in the next race!”
“Good luck with that,” Millbee replied, brushing off MC’s friendly threat and gently pushing him towards the kitchen for food. “Go eat already! Oh, could you bring me some water when you’re finished? I’m gonna do some stretching to prep for my next win!” MC giggled quietly as he walked into the well-lit kitchen, a drastic difference from the nearly black room from which he’d just emerged. He swung open some cabinet doors, looking for something he could make and eat quickly, but his first glance over the contents didn’t show anything of MC’s tastes. Thinking for a moment, MC decided he’d rather take a few extra minutes to get something out-of-the-house over spending another half hour searching for something to eat, so he grabbed a glass of water for Millbee, dropped it off on the table beside the couch where he and Millbee had set up to play Mario Kart, and put on his large winter coat on his way out, calling a goodbye to his friend as he went.
He walked outside and on his way to the store just so happened to pass by a group of people constructing a building, he had recognized it as a new restaurant and decided to see if he recognized anyone working on the build. He walked closer and heard the familiar voice of BdoubleO spewing out a string of cuss words.
“Whoa, Bdubs, you okay?” MC asked, now seeing the angry man, who was waving his hand around in the air profusely.
“Yeah, I just fucking hit my own finger with the damn screwgun.” BdoubleO spewed angrily, making a motion to the screwgun on the ground with his head. As he did so, MC noticed BdoubleO’s eyes for the first time since they changed. He couldn’t help but feel jealous of their multi-layered colors, not because of the way they glistened in the light, but because he wished he could find someone as well. MC decided to shrug it off, not feeling the need to think of that right now.
“Bdubs, what are you even doing building right now? It’s so close to New Years, and it's really cold outside!” MC pointed out, as he noticed BdoubleO was currently wearing nothing more than his long white sleeve shirt, blue jeans and shoes. “You’re gonna freeze out here!”
“Yeah, I know, but I really need to get this place done soon, I've got this big surprise set up for Guude and this is a crucial part of it!” BdoubleO noted as he picked his screw gun back up and continued working.
“Well alright, if you say so, just, try not to get sick, okay?” MC asked of BdoubleO, feeling somewhat sympathetic for the man. ‘Jeez, the things people do for love…’ He thought to himself as he waved BdoubleO ado, and continued walking to the local grocery store, a Great Eagle.
MC walked into the Great Eagle grocery store, and had secured himself some delicious microwavable turkey-bacon, by using his almighty item, the debit card. MC had also bought some milk for the milk alliance, and a box of cupcakes for him and Millbee to snack on later that night.
MC began to walk back to Millbee’s house, but once more he became sidetracked, this time by the bright lights and gentle thumping of the music in the Mindcrack town center, which had been repurposed for this weekend’s Christmas party. He hoped that everyone would have a great time there soon, because he wasn’t sure if he could stand to wait another day! The lights drew him in, and he nearly stepped into a snowbank higher than his knees if it weren’t for a loud explosion that made MC jump back in surprise. Red-tinted smoke bellowed out the door of the building ahead of him as Etho, Beef, and Pause all rushed out, coughing.
“Etho, why did you have to set off your stupid redstone thing!?” he heard Pause yell from the other side of the road, and a small argument unfolded, ending with laughter from the 3 friends, and by then MC realized he’d been staring and Pause had noticed him, giving him a friendly wave which broke the trance that had settled over the watching man. He flushed in embarrassment and made it back to Millbee’s house quickly.
“Welcome back,” Millbee said as MC entered, removing his heavy jacket and soaking in the warmth of the house as he walked to the kitchen to deposit what he’d gotten. “Took you a little while, didn’t it? Get caught up by anything in particular?” the Welshman asked, and MC, who had momentarily gotten distracted at the sight of his glorious turkey-bacon, made a noise of confusion, prompting a chuckle from Millbee, who repeated the question.
“You were gone for a while, so I was wondering if you’d gotten caught up by anything on your way home?” MC was about to say that no, he hadn’t been particularly caught up by anything or anyone, but then he realized that he had in fact been distracted on the way to get groceries, as well as on the way back.
“Yeah, got held up a little bit, but nothing too major. Just some Team Canada shenanigans on the way back,” MC said, waving it off as nothing. “Do you want something? I just went and got some bacon and cupcakes if you want any.”
“You got that turkey bacon that you like, didn’t you?” Millbee chuckled quietly, not understanding how MC could possibly like anything that wasn’t honest-to-goodness bacon made from pigs, but it wasn’t like it was his choice.
“I’ll have a cupcake, I suppose,” MIllbee said cheerfully, making a noise of happiness as MC brought out two heavily frosted cupcakes. One decorated with bright orange frosting, and the other a bright pink, both had star shaped sprinkles on top of the icing as well.
“You want the pink one, don’t you?” MC asked his friend with a smile, already knowing the answer before even asking the question. Millbee nodded his head vigorously before grabbing the cupcake and taking a large bite out of it. Smiling a toothy grin at MC, MC couldn’t help but giggle when he saw how Millbee had gotten more of the pink icing onto his face than into his mouth.
“Dang it Millbee, you’re like a child” MC added light-heartedly as he watched Millbee try to lick the pink icing off of his lips. MC took a napkin and wiped off the icing Millbee couldn’t get, tossing the napkin to the trashcan.
“Thank you!” Millbee said before taking another bite out of his cupcake, leading to the same result as before. MC sighed, realizing it was a lost cause.
“So, Millbee, have you thought at all about the party?” MC asked tentatively, not entirely sure what he was curious about, but the thought kept brushing against his mind until he finally asked it.
Millbee paused in the middle of his battle with his sprinkles and icing to look at MC. “Um, yeah, I suppose it’ll be pretty fun with all the guys gathered there!” he replied. “Was there something you wanted to talk about for the party? Like, ooh! We could bring more of these cupcakes! They’re really good, everyone should have a bite!” MC giggled, the infectious child-like joy of his friend spreading out over him as well.
“I suppose that’s an option, but… Do you, I dunno… It just seems like all the other guys either have their eyes on someone or already have their soulmate, and I suppose it’s just a bit odd to think about sometimes. Like, will we have a soulmate in another Mindcracker, or is it going to be someone outside the community?”
Millbee gave a murmur of assent before replying. “Yeah, I hadn’t really given it a lot of thought… Maybe we should stop playing Mario Kart while we talk about this?” MC nodded in agreement, turning the Wii U off, and turning to face his roommate and friend.
“It’s just a strange thought I’ve been having since Pause was talking about how Bdubs and Guude got together, and then on my way to the store I saw Bdubs working on some build, a restaurant or something, and i just looked into his eyes and it got me thinking even more. Like, what if we don’t ever meet our soulmates? Or what if we already did and we just don’t know it yet? Frick man, I don’t know what i’m talking about, i’m just… i don’t know” MC sighed, slumping back into the couch.
Millbee frowned a bit, seeing his friend in that somber mood. Despite MC’s affiliation with blue, he was almost always wearing a smile and giggling like a schoolgirl. At least, that’s what Millbee thought about MC when he thought about him. Seeing him like this was just far too disheartening… An idea popped into Millbee’s head suddenly, something so crazy and stupid only he would think of it.
I’ll just go to an eyewear store, order some custom gray contacts with a blue outline, and then MC will think that I’m his soulmate and he’ll be happy again! It’s foolproof! The Welshman thought to himself, and apparently MC noticed.
“Millbee, I know that face… what are you thinking of?” MC asked suspiciously, knowing all too well that whatever it was, couldn’t be good.
“What are you talking about man? I’m totally not thinking of anything…” Millbee stated quickly, trying to cover up his plan. MC sighed once again.
“Millbee, you’re a terrible liar.”
“Am not! You just know me too well,” Millbee fired back, getting a small smile and a shrug from MC in response. Millbee knew when he was defeated, and he knew that he was not going to win this conversation. “Well, I was gonna go order custom contacts, so that they’d be gray with a blue ring on the outside, and wear them so you’d think I was your soulmate and could stop being sad,” Millbee admitted, the plan sounding slightly more idiotic out loud than it did in his head.
MC blushed slightly, the thought of his friend wanting to go through that much trouble just to make him happy warming his heart. “Aw, Millbee, that’s really sweet… I mean, it doesn’t really make any sense, because my eyes wouldn’t have changed their color, and the second I looked into a mirror I would have been heartbroken, but the thought is still nice!” MC explained.
“Oh. Right” Millbee had a blank expression on his face, dumbfounded about how his plan would have been a complete failure. “Well, good thing that didn’t happen I guess,” Millbee added, chuckling in an attempt to make the tone more light-hearted.
“You’re too sweet Millbee,” MC said, pulling Millbee into a big hug, their body warmth radiating off of one another.
~
Finally, after much anticipation from all, the Mindcrack Christmas Party rolled around, and everyone was excited to see who had gifted them what item during the server-wide secret santa event. Millbee knew that although he hadn’t participated, he was still looking forward to all the revealing of senders of the multitude of mysterious gifts.
“Hey Millbee!” MC greeted him as he stepped out from the warmth of his home into the chilly winter to head over to the town center for the party.
“Ey, MC! Looking forward to all the craziness of the secret santa thing?” Millbee asked his blue-haired friend. “It’s gonna be awesome!”
“Yep, I can’t wait,” MC replied happily. “Wanna head over together? Oh, I wonder if Pause ever got Etho for blowing stuff up during their set up of the party?”
“What?” Millbee asked, a very confused look alighting on his face. “That happened? When?”
“Oh yeah, I forgot I didn’t say anything about it. I was walking home yesterday from the store and I saw him, Etho, and Beef all running from the town center and a whole bunch of reddish smoke behind them, then Pause yelled at Etho about some redstone contraption. That was kinda why I got held up for a little while longer than I’d anticipated,” MC explained, and Millbee grinned widely at hearing of Team Canada’s antics. I’m surprised that we even still have a town center with how often those three are the party set-up crew.
“Anyways man, you wanna head down to the party together?” Millbee asked, using his head to gesture towards the direction of the Town Center.
“Sure thing, let’s go!” MC said, walking along the snow-covered ground. It was just a small layer that had fallen overnight, but it was very fluffy, making MC’s and Millbee’s boots sink into it as they trudged through the white flakes that covered the ground. By the time they reached the path to the town center, which was by far the most shoveled road in the town at that point, their clothes and boots were covered in the clingy snowflakes.
“You look like a snowman in a rainbow sweater, Millbee,” MC told his friend with a quiet giggle, and Millbee had to admit, he certainly did. His trousers were completely covered in snow, making the almost black coloration seem like a dull grey at best.
As they approached the town center’s entrance, they could already hear the sounds of their friends voices and the tune of Christmas songs playing from the stereos inside. There was bright lights shining through the door, an odd combination of a normal yellowish-orange, but also a vibrant red light.
They stepped closer, and Millbee opened up the door, so graciously holding it open for MC to enter as well. As Millbee stepped in behind MC his nose immediately picked up the smell of scented candles. He took in another wiff of the room, and his nose told him the candles were most likely the fragrance of pumpkin pie.
“Wow, Pause, Etho, and Beef really did a good job setting this place up, don't you think?” MC said cheerfully. Millbee now looked around, and he had to agree. There were a few tables on the side with red and white table clothes, hanging from the roof was more red and white tinsel, and located in the middle of the room was the Christmas tree, standing tall at 20 feet, it was decorated with multi colored lights evenly spaced along the tree, in addition to having various different ornaments, some being plain red orbs, others having more meaning, such as the ornament designed to look like the Mindcrack logo.
As Millbee approached the tables, he noted they seemed to have various different snacks and drinks scattered across them, many of the snacks he didn't recognize, like those little things that kinda looked like eggs, but were green and had some sort of yellow thing inside of them… Millbee promptly decided they looked weird, and that he would only have a few of them.
“Oh hey Millbee!” Pause called out from near the bar that had been set up with a multitude of drinks. “Glad you’re here. I need to figure out who gave me my secret santa gift, and I need your detective-skills to help me figure it out before Guude starts announcing the actual givers.”
“Uh, Pause, I’d love to help, bu-” Millbee began to explain his confusion and lack of expertise in that area, but Pause cut him off.
“Great!” Pause said, grabbing Millbee’s arm for support. “I’m sure Guude will know something! He seems all su… sups… suspicious! Yeah, suspicious with all those… empty glasses, ya know, Millbs?”
“I guess so? He seems more interested in those drinks and BdoubleO than suspicious, to be honest, Pause,” Millbee said to the drunken native on his arm.
“Come on! I’m sure he’ll be the one to have gotten it! He loves to make me look bad, and I got a shirt with a logo!” Pause cried indignantly.
“Pause, the shirt just had a logo you didn’t recognize, I’m sure that it wasn’t just Guude trying to make you look bad.”
“Let’s go interrogate him!” Pause told Millbee, clearly not listening in the slightest. Millbee chuckled slightly, humoring his friend as they walked over to Guude’s table.
Millbee immediately noticed Guude and BdoubleO’s eyes, and was taken back by them. He had been informed by Pause that they had gotten together earlier, but this was the first time he actually saw them and their new eye colors. Millbee would never consider himself the emotional type, but seeing how beautiful and vibrant the green on brown and brown on green eyes were hit him with an unexpected flood of emotions.
“Whoa, your guys eyes are crazy amazing!” Millbee sporadically said as he saw them, the joyous feeling he got, seeing his friends eyes like that, was quickly overtaking him.
Guude giggled a bit, and BdoubleO’s smile grew. Guude and BdoubleO were holding hands, with their free hands holding amber colored drinks.
“Thanks Millbee, you're actually like the 15th guy to say that. I didn't think so many people would be this happy for us, I mean we’d already been dating for a few weeks before our eyes changed, so I didn't expect there to be this big of a difference” Guude said, giggling slightly to himself.
“Of course man! You know most people never meet their soulmates, and just settle down with whomever, it's amazing that even fate has decided you 2 belong together!” Millbee added.
“Well when you put it that way, yeah I guess it is kinda special” Guude responded. “Hear that BOO? Even fate thinks we’re a good couple” Guude moved in and kissed BdoubleO on the cheek.
“Well I don't mean to interrupt all the love, but Guude I had some questions for you!” Pause leaned to the side, resting his elbow on the bar. His face took on a more serious expression, but all that did was cause Millbee to want to laugh at how ridiculous he was being over a secret Santa gift.
Pause questioned Guude, most of them attempts to be subtle about what he was asking for, but it was obvious to everyone listening to the conversation what he wanted. In the end Guude gave no hint as to who Pause’s secret Santa was and simply said “Pause you're finding out in like an hour anyways, go annoy Beef or someone else”
Accepting defeat, Pause sighed. Leaning his head on Millbee’s shoulder, and closing his eyes for just a second. Throughout the questioning both Millbee and Pause had been drinking, and both were more drunk than before.
“M’kay, we should go and question, uh… Who should we go see?” Pause asked Millbee, and unfortunately for Millbee, his brain was already muddled by the alcohol. As a result, only one person besides Pause was on his mind, and if he’d been in his right mind, he might have remembered that MC wasn’t even a part of the Secret Santa event.
“We should go find MC and talk with him now,” Millbee told Pause, giggling a bit as he stumbled slightly as he took his first step away from the small table he’d been leaning on.
“MCCCCCCC! Where are youuuuuu?” Pause called out, his voice getting lost in the loud room. “Hmm… Let’s go see if he’s out in the hallways!” The two, using each other for support, managed to wander through the doorway out into the hallway, where MC, Coe, and Chad were all talking to each other close to the exit.
“Heyyyy! MC, there you are!” Millbee exclaimed happily, raising his drink. “Come on over here, you. Pause and I need to interrogate you about your involvement in the Secret Santa crimes.” MC looked over at the pair in the doorway and glanced from Millbee’s face to Pause’s to the drinks and back to their faces, then began to laugh.
“Are you two sure you’re not drunk? Because I’m not even in the Secret Santa,” MC tried to explain, but Millbee and Pause wouldn’t hear it.
“Nonsense! Get over here and let us question you, MC!” Pause said, saying each word carefully so as not to slur them. Millbee nodded his assent and nearly fell on his face. MC walked over to humor them, but he saw something out of the corner of his eyes that made him pause for a moment.
Okay, MC… Just play it cool and maybe they- MC began to tell himself to keep this revelation to himself, but as he got to Pause and Millbee’s sides, he heard a loud whistle from behind him.
“Hey, guys!” Chad yelled loudly, drawing the attention of everyone, even in the loud, crowded main room. All eyes settled on the trio beneath the doorframe, and more importantly, a bough of mistletoe hung by a string.
All of the guys got up from what they were doing and left who they were talking to to gather around MC, Pause, and Millbee, with the latter two growing very confused by the sudden interest in their group.
“Did we figure out who my Secret Santa was?” Pause asked, a hint of pride showing in his tone.
“Pause, you were trying to ask someone who wasn’t even in the Secret Santa, do you think that’s what happened?” Guude told him, moving his hands as he spoke and subsequently spilled his drink on the polished floors.
“Umm… Is it really necessary to be so close…?” MC asked, his face growing more and more red as the crowd of Mindcrackers seemed to close in around them in anticipation.
“Hell yeah!” Coe exclaimed. “Get to the kissing already so we can go back to partying though!” His words were followed by an assenting roar of the others, although with varying levels of sobriety.
“Kiss?” Millbee and Pause both questioned simultaneously, before looking up and noticing the mistletoe above theirs and MC’s head’s.
“Oh…” Millbee said slowly, as it finally dawned on him what was happening. “Well… You’re both pretty hot and not Baj, so I’m fine with it.”
“Excuse me!?” Baj cried out indignantly from the back of the crowd over the laughter of the others.
“Give your fuccdaddi a kiss, Millbee,” Pause said in a poor interpretation of an alluring voice, complete with a wiggle of his eyebrows.
Millbee had different plans though, slightly nudging Pause and pointing his head at MC, and Pause let out a small noise of understanding.
“Umm… Guys?” MC asked, concerned at the apparent scheming the other two were doing without his opinion. With a short step from the both of the taller men, MC was in between the both of them and then their lips touched on either side of his face, giving him a soft kiss (that could’ve been delivered a bit more tactfully, as Millbee was a bit too inebriated to give a proper kiss). This gesture led to whistles and cheers of congratulations from everyone else gathered, and Millbee and Pause took this as a sign of approval to continue, so they both left MC to give each other a much deeper kiss on the lips.
“Well, that was certainly something!” Guude exclaimed. “Now get out of here and get a room, you drunk fucks.” Nebris gently led MC, who was still reeling from shock, into the main room to a small table, as Guude, BdoubleO, Chad, and Coe all tried to get Millbee and Pause to either take their makeout session elsewhere or stop it altogether.
MC was sat down at a small dark oak table, and brought a cup of hot chocolate that smelled of cocoa and marshmallows, Nebris took the seat adjacent to his. While the party continued on Nebris leaned over to MC and began questioning him about the kiss.
“So, how was it?” Nebris asked with a smirk, and the typical layer of confidence in his voice.
“Uh, how was what?” MC blushed brightly, knowing he was a terrible liar.
“The kiss of course! You still seem pretty happy about the whole thing, and I know you and Millbee are already pretty close, I bet you've just been waiting for Millbee to make move, and Pause isn't a bad bonus either, eh?” Nebris caused MC to begin sputtering denials and for his cheeks to turn an even darker shade of red, but eventually he gave in.
“Fine, you're right, the kisses were… Really freaking amazing!” MC tried to keep his voice low and his enthusiasm down as well, but it was difficult to do. “The only thing is I'm not sure if anything will come out of it, like a relationship with one of them. They were probably just really drunk when they kissed me, I'm sure they don't feel the same way”
Nebris frowned before hitting MC on the shoulder lightly. “BS, I think you and I both know Millbee and Pause have been looking for a relationship for a while, and I bet they're both totally into you because you're amazing” Nebris’ words cheered MC up greatly, and the delectable hot chocolate he was sipping helped too.
“Thanks Nebris, you're such an awesome friend. When Millbee and Pause are less drink, I'll see how they felt about the kiss.” MC finished off his cup of hot chocolate, and then he and Nebris went to join the others as the Secret Santa gifts were exchanged and then revealed. Pause drunkenly shouted out an ”I fucking knew it!” when he had learned Jeff was the giver of his present.
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MC groggily awoke, looking at his alarm clock by his bedside. 7:30 AM. Way too early to wake up when he didn’t have anything to do. He rolled over into a pile of Zelda and Pokemon themed pillows and attempted to go back to sleep.
Unfortunately, as his body seemed to think it was funny to make him get up with only a few hours of sleep, MC couldn’t manage to get back to sleep. Finally he decided to get out of bed once and for all and trudged over to the bathroom. Groping around for a minute trying to find the lightswitch, MC remembered the events of last night’s party. Odd how he felt almost like he was mildly hungover even though he hadn’t even gotten nearer to a drink than when Pause and Millbee had kissed him.
Finally he flicked the lightswitch up, sighing in relief as he could finally enter the bathroom without being essentially blind because of the lack of lights. MC walked past the sinks and mirror without much of a thought, but then he realized he didn’t exactly have anything that he needed to do in the bathroom. Shrugging, he walked back over to the sink and turned the knob to let cold water flow out of the faucet, plunging his hands into the cold stream, then splashing the icy droplets onto his face to clear away the fog of his sleep.
Looking up, MC tried to find a towel using the mirror’s reflection, but a split second after he located one, his gaze rushed back to the reflection of himself. His eyes narrowed in confusion as he tried to figure out what looked out of place, but as he felt like he was getting somewhere, his cell phone rang from his bedroom. Grabbing at the towel he’d found a moment before, MC quickly dried off his face and rushed back into his room, barely avoiding stepping on a model of Link, whose sword would’ve been quite painful to step on.
“Hello?” MC said as he answered his cellphone, and within half a second, MC’s ears were assaulted with loud yelling from the other end of the line. He moved the phone away from his ear for a moment until the screams stopped, then put the phone up to the ear that wasn’t ringing.
“MC!” Millbee said excitedly. “MC, you have to come over here! Right away! And if you see Pause on your way, grab him too!”
MC was about to ask what had Millbee so excited, but the line went dead, prompting MC to set his phone down for a moment to wonder. Well, I may as well go see what’s going on with him so early in the morning, MC thought to himself, and left his room to locate his puffy coat.
After he had gotten dressed up in his winter clothing, he made the trek through the snow-covered ground all the way to Millbee’s house, which luckily wasn’t that far. He noticed no one else seemed to be awake yet, and if they were, they definitely weren't leaving their house at such an early hour, especially after a party that left most of them with hangovers.
MC approached Millbee’s house and entered, not feeling the need to knock. After all the two spent most of their time at one another’s homes, knocking was not necessary. MC felt the warmth coming from Millbee’s heater the second he entered, and it was much appreciated.
“MC, you’re finally here!” MC heard Pause shout from the living room.
“Yeah, now can one of you two please tell me what's so important!” MC exclaimed, still in a different room than the duo, as he was hanging up his coat.
“Come here!” Millbee shouted with a tone of glee in his voice. A now jacketless MC walked right into the living room and when seeing Millbee and Pause, he immediately figured out why he had been called down to Millbee’s house at 8 am.
“Your eyes!” MC sputtered, amazed as he saw Millbee’s and Pause’s eyes, now with new outer rings. “They're crazy! You guys are soulmates! I'm so happy for you two!” MC ran up to give Millbee a hug, but Millbee stopped him.
“Dude, look again!” Millbee said, staring directly into MC’s eyes now. Realization hit MC hard, as he saw only one of Millbee’s normally blue-gray colored eyes had a dark brown outer layer. The eye on the right now possessed a dark blue outer layer, and MC knew.
“Oh my fricken, goodness! We’re soulmates Millbee!” MC shouted, jumping up and down gleefully.
“Oi, look at my eyes!” Pause shouted, snapping MC’s attention to him. MC had almost forgotten that Pause was in the room, with the recent discovery. MC stared at Pause’s eyes and he was overflown with the same emotions he had gotten when seeing Millbee’s all over again.
Pause’s dark brown eyes now possessed an outer ring of blue-gray on one eye, and MC’s dark blue color on the other eye.
“This is so amazing!” MC cried out happily, and Pause and Millbee grabbed both of MC’s hands and the three started spinning and giggling gleefully until they fell over in pure dizziness and joy.
“Okay…” Pause began, taking a deep breath between his words. “I can’t… help but… feel like… Guude is gonna… say ‘I told you so.’”
“Maybe…” Millbee said, but he leaned over to Pause, then over to MC and pulled them both close to him. “But I don’t mind as long as I’m with you two.”
MC giggled at his words before saying, “That would’ve been a lot more romantic if we weren’t out of breath and lying on the floor.”
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Date: Monday, February 15th, 2016 05:06 am (UTC)Makes what I've been writing seem so terrible XD
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Date: Friday, February 19th, 2016 11:21 pm (UTC)I would love to see you post something again, you're such an awesome writer!
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Date: Wednesday, February 17th, 2016 01:55 am (UTC)Too cute, 10/10 good feels
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